MSU Billings Golf Team to Tee-Up for First Event this Weekend (September 12, 2002)

BILLINGS – The Montana State University-Billings men’s and women’s golf teams will see their first competition this weekend when that travel to Aberdeen, South Dakota for two events.  The events will mark the first-ever for the new golf programs.

The Yellowjackets will compete in the Wolf Classic at Moccasin Creek Country Club on Sunday, September 15; and at the Saints Open at Lee Park Golf Course on Monday, September 16.  Both events will be attended by MSU Billings, Northern State University, South Dakota State School of Mines, Jamestown College, and Presentation College.

The first year program is guided by head coach Dave Doherty, the golf professional at Pryor Creek Golf Club.  Doherty will be traveling five men’s players and three women’s players to this weekend’s event, and plans to have about least eight men and five women on the team for the spring season.

Competing this weekend for the Yellowjacket men’s team will be junior Kevin Davis from Santa Ana, California; Eric Staab from Powell, Wyoming; Brian Barthelmess from Seely Lake, Montana; Matt Desin from Billings; and Chris Haas from Bozeman.  

The Lady Jackets will take three players to South Dakota this weekend: Nicole Clayton and Krystal Broesden, both from Wolf Point, Montana; and Elizabeth Marshall from Worland, Wyoming.

Doherty hopes to enter one or two other events during the fall season, including a possible match at the Yellowjackets’ home course of Pryor Creek.  They will then compete in a fairly full spring schedule, which is the traditional championship season for NCAA competition.